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W. F. DAVIS.

ATTACHMENT POR ARTICLES 0E FURNITURE. No. 325,737.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. DAVIS, OF AT'ILEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK L. BURDEN, OF SAME PLACE.

ATTACHMENT FOR ARTICLES OF FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,737, dated September 8, 1885.

Application filed October 24, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZwtmo/z, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. Davis, of Attleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Attachment for Sofas and other Articles of Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in a deviceo-r attachment adapted to be secured to lounges, sofas, bedsteads, and other articles of furniture in such a manner as to prevent the same fromstriking or resting against the Walls next which they stand, the said attachment being constructed so that its outer end cornes into contact with the mop-board or skirtingboard, and thus fends off the article of furniture to which it is applied.

The nature of this invention is fully described below, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which* Figure l is avieW of my device applied to a lounge or sofa, the adjacent parts of which are shown in broken lines. Fig. 2 is a View of an attachment embodying my invention adapted to be applied to a bedstead, the adjacent parts of which are shown in broken lines.

In Fig. 1 the frame or under side ofa lounge or sofa is represented by the end rail, A, and rear rail, B.

The device or attachment consists of a bar or arm, D, horizontally bifurcated at its outerl end and provided with a vertical pin or shaft, E, on which is a rubber wheel, H, free to rotate horizontally, as shown. The inner end ofthe arm is provided with a plate, D, Which is adapted to be secured to the sofa or lounge in the position shown-viz., to the under sides of the end rail, A, and rear rail, B, neXt the` two inner sides of the leg G. The arm or bar D is bent downward into substantially the shape shown, in order that the rubber Wheel H may be sufficiently near the floor to touch the mop-board or skirting-board of the room. rIwo or more of these attachments may be applied to the lounge, if desired, with the result that the article of furniture cannot possibly strike the wall or rest against it, thus injuring the paper or the wood-work of the article per, but the mop-board, and by reason of its Y elasticity and of its being free to rotate it cannot possibly mar the skirting-board or do any injury whatever to it.

It is evident that by attaching the plat-e D at 'a point further back from the leg than is shown in the drawings the lounge or sofa may be allowed to stand nearer the wall, if desired. y

In Fig. 2 I represents a leg of the bedstead, and J J head and side rails thereof. The arm D is bifurcated at its outer end and provided with a horizontal rubber wheel, H, exactly similar to that shown in Fig. l, and is also provided with a plate, D', by means of which the attachment may be secured to one of the inner sides of one of the legs I of the bedstead, said plate differing from the corresponding plate shown in Fig. 1 only in being a vertical insteadfof a horizontal one. As this attachment can bev placed at any height on said leg, it need not be bent downward, as is the attachment shown in Fig. 1, in order to reach the mop-board.

My improvement may be applied to any article of furniture Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by-Letters Patent, is- ,Y

The hereinbeforedescribed attachment for sofas, bedsteads, and other articles of furniture, for preventing the same from coming into contact with the walls of the room, consisting of the bar or arm D, provided at its outer end with a rubber wheel free to rotate in said bar, and at its inner end with suitable means whereby it may be attached to the article of furniture, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM F. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

Oris L. SADLEE, 9g., OBADIAH LYON. 

